As ILRI staff produce more and more news, updates and products, finding information and keeping up with the work of colleagues is a challenge (see a Komms Klinic presentation on this). We all need to proactively sign up to ‘follow’ the work of our colleagues. One of the easiest ways to do this is through … Continue reading
Author Archives: Peter Ballantyne (ILRI)
ILRI internal communications survey – your help needed
Internal communication and knowledge sharing across ILRI is something we need to improve. Wubalem Dejene (PLE in Addis Ababa) is studying for a Master’s degree in Project Management and has chosen to look at ways ILRI communicates internally. PLease help her – and ILRI – by completing her survey. Take the survey here ! Continue reading
Our work on human health and nutrition – Feedback received
As part of our work on a new strategy for ILRI, Delia asked some questions related to ILRI’s work at the interface of animal and human health. If you have some further ideas or comments triggered by this post, please feel free to share them! With thanks to those people who replied, here’s a quick … Continue reading
Strategy consultations with staff – feedback on ILRI ‘success’ as well as ‘likes and dislikes’
During the visit of George Levvy as consultant to the strategy task force, we organized as series of face to face and virtual conversations with staff. We asked two main sets of questions: 1. what would success for ILRI look like in the future? 2. What do you think we should keep and change about … Continue reading
ILRI Strategy – Follow the conversations
In the past ten days, we have accelerated our discussions and engagement across ILRI and beyond. We have posed questions and asked for feedback from the wider world; we have convened small group discussions inside ILRI, and we have some internal questions as well. Last week, we brought together a dozen scientists from the Addis … Continue reading
ILRI strategy: Research on livestock and the environment – how much should ILRI do?
Society has realized there are significant pressures on the world’s food and ecological systems, where the alterations of global biogeochemical cycles could be irreversible and where new drivers, such as climate change, are likely to exert additional pressures for sustainably feeding 9 billion people in the future. At the same time, and especially in the … Continue reading
ILRI strategy – Taking our work on human health and nutrition forward
As part of our strategy development process, the strategy task force identified several ‘tough issues’ where we are seeking insights and feedback from external partners. One of the areas concerns ways that we can best ‘address the interface of animal and human health.’ In working up the questions, Delia identified some questions we would like to … Continue reading
ILRI strategy ‘storyline’ – Feedback needed
As mentioned in the recent process update, the strategy development Task Force has developed a ‘storyline’ to set out the overall concept that underpins our new strategy. This is very much work in progress, it is very draft, and it needs further tightening up. We need your feedback on this document [download here or read … Continue reading
ILRI strategy development – next steps
In February and March many of you gave feedback and suggestions – and answers – to a series of questions we asked to help the Strategy Development Taskforce do it work. What happened? What’s happening next? What’s already happened? Read the outline of a new strategy 2013-2022 discussed by the Board at the end of … Continue reading
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